Police have charged a Tucker Middle School teacher with attempted child molestation after police said he tried to sexually assault a teen at Perimeter Mall on August 4.WSB reports that Devin LeCorry Johnson, 28, was charged Tuesday after he turned himself in. The school district has since fired him, officials said. Sgt. Robert Parsons, with the Dunwoody Police Department, said the 13-year-old was washing his hands last week Johnson struck up a conversation. Police say Johnson then lured the teen into a bathroom stall and then tried to get him to pull down his pants.When the boy fought back, police say, the man grabbed his pants, but the boy got away and his father chased the man out of the mall. Surveillance video released by police generated about a dozen tips. Police say that when Johnson saw the video, he contacted the school district, which then called Dunwoody police. Johnson is now charged with child molestation, enticing a child and obstruction of officers. The school district has not commented on Johnson's arrest.

Police have charged a Tucker Middle School teacher with attempted child molestation after police said he tried to sexually assault a teen at Perimeter Mall on August 4.

WSB reports that Devin LeCorry Johnson, 28, was charged Tuesday after he turned himself in. The school district has since fired him, officials said.

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Sgt. Robert Parsons, with the Dunwoody Police Department, said the 13-year-old was washing his hands last week Johnson struck up a conversation.

Police say Johnson then lured the teen into a bathroom stall and then tried to get him to pull down his pants.

When the boy fought back, police say, the man grabbed his pants, but the boy got away and his father chased the man out of the mall.

Surveillance video released by police generated about a dozen tips. Police say that when Johnson saw the video, he contacted the school district, which then called Dunwoody police.

Johnson is now charged with child molestation, enticing a child and obstruction of officers.